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Summary

In Nation and Revolution, Anouar Abdel-Malek examines the dynamics of power and social change and shows how the super-imposition of new geo-politics on the existing order of national states has brought about the primacy of the political in contemporary history. Taking issue with those who maintain that the Western proletariat constitutes the main impetus for social change today, Abdel-Malek argues that the united front historically necessary to break the hold of hegemonism will be based on a new East Wind combining mighty waves of national liberation and social revolution.

Table of Contents

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Part I. The Nation as Crucible
1. National formations in the Three Continents: Outline of a Typology
2. Sociology of National Development: Problems of Conceptualisation
3. The Scientist as 'Civic Man'
4. The Army in the Nation: a Contribution to the Theory of Power

Part II. Imperialism, Hegemony and National Liberation
5. Historical Surplus Value
6. Marxism and National Liberation: a Statement of the Theoretical Problem
7. The Sociology of Imperialism

Part III. Overtures to a New Prospective
8. The Thrust of Socialist Thought: Positions
9. The United Front as Historical Strategy
10. East Wind: the Historical Position of the Civilisational Project